2 Chronicles 10:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ But Rehoboam^[a] ignored the counsel that his elder advisors had given him. Instead, he consulted the younger men who had grown up with him and worked for^[b] him. ⁹ As a result, he asked them, “What’s your advice, so we can give an answer to these people who have asked me, ‘Please lighten the burden that your father put on us’?”

¹⁰ “This is what you should tell the people who asked you: ‘Your father made our burden heavy, but you must make it lighter for us!’” the young men who had grown up with Rehoboam^[c] replied. “Tell them ‘My little finger will be thicker than my father’s whole body!^[d]